Cliff Shadows
1921
Walter Elmer Schofield
Painter, American, 1867 - 1944
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 127.64 × 153.04 cm (50 1/4 × 60 1/4 in.)
framed: 153.99 × 179.07 × 6.99 cm (60 5/8 × 70 1/2 × 2 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.12
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist [1867-1944]; purchased 1921 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1921
Eighth Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 December 1921 - 22 January 1922, no. 99, repro.
1932
Special Exhibition of Paintings by Walter Elmer Schofield, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1932, no. 10.
1979
Loan to The Metropolitan Club, Washington, 1979-1980.
1983
Walter Elmer Schofield, Bold Impressionist, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, 10 September - 20 November 1983, repro.
1984
The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting, Allentown Art Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greenburg; Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, 16 September 1984 - 1 September 1985, fig. 2:25.
1998
The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.
2003
The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 July 2003 - 18 October 2004, unpublished checklist.
2014
Schofield: International Impressionist, Woodmere Art Musueum, Philadelphia, 2014-2015, cat. pg. 69.
Bibliography
1929
Lewer, J. "W. Elmer Schofield-Artist." The Vista (August 1929): 8, 27. ill.
1966
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 1: Painters born before 1850. Washington, 1966: 72.
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 316, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: Schofield - / '21
Wikidata ID
Q46633996